[Pkg-mono-devel] Ximian Build System

[Eduard Bloch]

#include <hallo.h>
* Fredrik Hedberg [Wed, Jun 16 2004, 04:35:44PM]:

> Are you guys packaging mono by hand or wouldn't it be possible to use
> the Ximian Build System to build for debian aswell as the other archs?

Comments:

 - what exactly are the advantages?
 - which other arches? Debian autobuilders picked up the source already
   while I cannot see any packages for !x86 && !powerpc from Ximian
 - the Ximian Build System is not FHS compliant (extensive usage of
   /usr/lib for non-native code)
 - I think the Debian developers won't accept packages built externaly,
   they must be buildable on our systems. And then the legality situation=
 is not that easy.
   AFACIS the Ximian Build System does not build mcs and assemblies at
   all, it simply puts GPLed code from the mono tarball into RPMs
   without having source for it (the source is separated).
 - the RPMs they create are built/installed on a very "generic" way and
   not compatible with the Debian system on many places: different
   package names, different versions, different level of integration
   (binfmt support? update-alternatives support?  automatic dependency
   generation for other packages?)

In short: if you wish to get DEBs faster, take RPMs and convert them
with alien. (Not tested yet but I think this should work since Ximian
provides a long dependency chain).
  =20
Regards,
Eduard.
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